Comments on: 2007 Mariners, post-meetings

By: Edman

Edman — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:45:18 +0000

Why should Bavasi show up. Last time he went to one, he offered some information under the agreement that people attending wouldn’t post it……..and, it was up on the web before he could get his car started.

Why should he bother?

By: Lance

Lance — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:42:26 +0000

M’s won’t have three lefties in the rotation or three in the bullpen.

O’Flaherty will start in AAA and will come up if and when Woods or Sherrill falter.

Huber or an acquired veteran replaces O’Flaherty on your roster.

And,don’t forget Lowe, who hopefully will be up by May, best case scenario, or the ASB (someone may have mentioned him already but obviously I didn’t read all comments up to this point).

By: squidbilly

squidbilly — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:25:43 +0000

62. Anyone see this article? I think it sums up a lot of the feelings being expressed around here, and made some good points.

Trading Ibanez is a great idea, even if you can only get a mildly good prospect for him… If even that. Bavasi is too afraid at this point to do something so smart (I mean really Bill, it’s not that hard: Buy low, sell high. Friggin’ A!)

Also, I hate Wee Willie Bloomquist as much as the next M’s fan (or maybe it’s just me who hates him?), but I almost have sympathy after the way he was ripped into in that article. Sheesh.

A “dud organization”? As someone who grew up with Jack Perconte, Spike Owen, and Pete O’Brien among others, I feel right at home. If only they still had the Kingdome to play in. Safeco is a waste… Plus the voters voted against it. Right now my favorite Safeco moment was seeing Tommy Lasorda fall on his ass at the All-Star game. Heh, that was great.

By: Sports on a Schtick

Sports on a Schtick — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:06:47 +0000

Our bullpen went from awesome to okay. Is Mateo officially the new Bobby Ayala?

By: mln

mln — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 02:25:40 +0000

The Mariners seemed to have made the biggest splash at the Winter Meetings, though not exactly in a positive way.... The deal that got the most attention within the industry was Atlanta's acquisition of Rafael Soriano from Seattle for Horacio Ramirez. "That was a great John Schuerholz deal," said one general manager. "Unbelievable." Bill Bavasi, he's craptastic!

By: Mr. Egaas

Mr. Egaas — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:56:55 +0000

“This was one of the more miserable winter meetings I’ve ever been to,” Mariners GM Bill Bavasi said.

This is classic. I’m sure it wasn’t pleasant to be heckled right and left after making the worst one-sided trade off the off-season.

By: Jim Thomsen

Jim Thomsen — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 23:35:31 +0000

USS Mariner has oft espoused the virtues of the “Cleveland approach.”

By: DMZ

DMZ — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:10:45 +0000

I tend to think that teams need to have periodic rebuilding years in which they trade off their veterans for prospects. This concept never seems to be mentioned on this site, so maybe it’s an old fashioned notion or something.

Dude. Seriously, we talk about this all the time, and particularly how the M’s, armed with so much cash, can spend on higher-quality stopgaps during the down years to make rebuilding easier.

By: geofftoons

geofftoons — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 21:05:29 +0000

Anyone see this article? I think it sums up a lot of the feelings being expressed around here, and made some good points.

By: msb

msb — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:51:24 +0000

catching up woth yesterday, i think this about sums it up: "This was one of the more miserable winter meetings I've ever been to," Mariners GM Bill Bavasi said. Geoff Baker shows again that he is not Finny in his winter meeting wrap-up and Edgar continues to utilize those business classes he took at American University...